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Show VIGTIMS 0E:EXPLG3I0Li: : : - ARE IN-UHLE. DulG Hone of Those Injured at Grander. Is Lteclj; to Suf- - fcr Serious Results From the Accident. . : , Of the score or more young people who were Injured by the explosion . of .the acetylene gas generator la - the- Granger ward meeting-house Tuesday . night, in which Nellie Mackay was killed, not one is seriously hurt and, unless complications arise In one or two cases, there will be no deaths. . v . - The most seriously Injured are: ' . Melvln Grow, 18 years old; slightly Injured In-jured Internally. ' Vivian Wallace, scalp cut, internal Injuries In-juries and Buffering from nervous shock. The following 1s a complete list of those who were so badly hurt as to require the services of physicians: Ida Smith, severe scalp wound. In which six stitches were taken. Charles Lambert Bawd en, hair- burned off, face and scalp cut and bruised. Nora Johnson, - scalp- wound, requiring eight stitches. Anna Horne, back wrenched. " Rena Solomon, : ankles, , bruised and sprained. . - Mrs. Mary Harmon, ankles bruised from concussion; severe ervous shock. Lauiilla Home, ' hips hurt and back wrenched. - Those who were, slightly injured, and who will have recovered within a week, are Frederick Eldredge, Hasel Hemen-way, Hemen-way, Emma Fairbourn, Minnie Fslrbourn, Ella Bongarter, George Fairbourn, James Fairbourn. Jr., Eltea Bawden. Hasel Murphy, Ray Peterson, 8am Wallace, Jr.. Arva Mitchell. Mabel Mackay, Alonso Mackay.- Thorns A. 'Mackay, Laura Ger-ber. Ger-ber. Alice Warr, Kate Warr. Fred Turner, Tur-ner, Wiley Solomon, Alice Blnnell, Violet Binneil and Mabel Peterson. . . . The funeral of Miss Mackay will be held Sunday morning at 11 o'clock at the Granite Gran-ite stake meeting-house, at Fourteenth South and State streeta Miss Mackay was to have been married In a few weeks to Albert Shafer, a young farmer living near Granger. ' ; ' ' ' ' r Miss Mackay'was sfin breathing when she was taken from-beneath the-organ that crushed her. She was removed to the home of Mr. Fairbourn. who Uvea across the street from the meeting-house, but she died within a few minutes after the explosion. She had apparently been injured in-jured in only two places, a bad Bruise being be-ing inflicted on the forehead and another over the heart. "''." ' ' ; A Coroner's Jury was Impaneled yesterday yester-day afternoon by Justice L. Hemenway, I and a verdict was brought to the effect that Miss Mackay came to her death by an explosion of acetylene gas at the Granger Gran-ger meetlng-houfw, the cauee of which was unknown. The member of the Jury were A. J. Hill. P. a W-tcher and Jacob Hunter. - --- - - - , , Further investigation of the explosion, has failed to show indefinitely what the cause was. . It is said that the mechanical generator had failed' to work properly for some time, and that the high bi-esaure caused a leakage from the tank. This gas escaping from the tank Is supposed to thave settled on the floor of the basement. base-ment. A fir was burning In a stove near the tank, It is said, and when the young men went to the basement ot ascertain the cause of the flickering of the lights, the draught from the door carried the gas to the names in the stove, causing the explosion. The three young men who went to the basement say that they had not entered the basement when the explosion ex-plosion occurred, and say that the force of the explosion tore the door from It fastenings at the moment they attempted to open it. - They declare that no light was used by thesr. The meeting-house was so completely demolished that it will have to beraaed. It was built In 188 at a cost of 300W. |